Trio of 'Pick Me Up' Balls

This is a nice alternative to a packaged energy bar. Made with your own fine ingredients, know what goes into them and make them to your liking. Here, I have rolled some of mine with cocoa and coconut. You can also roll them in ground nuts, powdered sugar, melted chocolate or simply leave them plain.

trio of 'pick me up' balls

95 grams (about 1 cup) oats

95 grams (about 1 cups) almond flour

30 grams (1/4 cup) cacao powder

1 tsp ashwaganda powder (optional)

pinch of salt { Celtic Sea Salt, preferable}

2 heaping Tbsp sunflower butter ( or preferred nut butter)

2 Tbsp honey, or more to taste

1 tsp vanilla extract

warm water

Grind the oats to a fine meal with an immersion blender. Place in a medium sized bowl and add the almond flour, cacao powder, ashwaganda powder and salt.  Measure them out simply by using a digital scale, zeroing out the scale after each addition. Stir, then add the sunflower butter, honey and vanilla.  Mix with a spoon and your fingers bringing the dough together in clumps.  Add warm water one tablespoon at a time to achieve a consistency such that the crumbs hold together when shaped into a ball.   Shape into twelve balls and place on a tray.  

Leave 4 plain. Roll 4 in additional cocoa powder.  Roll 4 in another ingredient like chopped nuts, powdered sugar,  or even shredded coconut like I happened to have on hand when taking this picture.

Keep chilled.